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What are Sitemaps?
Sitemaps are an eaSy way for webmasters t0 inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling: In its simplest form,
Sitemap
an XML file that lists URL 5 for & site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated,
how often it usually changes
and how important iLiS relative t0 other URL
in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site
Web crawlers usually discover pages from links within the site and from other sites_ Sitemaps supplement this data to allow crawlers that support Sitemaps to pick up all URLs in the Sitenap and Iearn about those URLs using the associated metadata. Using the Sitemap
protocol does not guarantee that web pages are included in search engines; but provides hints for web crawlers to do
better job of crawling your site
Sitemap 0.90
offered under the terms of the Attribution_ShareAlike_Creative_Commons_License and has wide adoption, including support irom Google, Yahool  and Microsoft.
~Last Updated: ! 7 Aprt 2020
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